I am trying to change the favicon and I am using the Milky Way template, but nothing seems to work.

I have tried:- placing my favicon.ico in the root public_html folder- placing it the images folder- placing it the templates folder- I have left it for 2 days to see if it might be cache problem as Refreshing the cache does not solve the problem- Downloaded Firefox

Hi Zara-zee. My problem is solved with dego 007 instruction: erasing the favicon and put my one (just replacing it do not work). Need to clear the cache too. Thank you, but in the IE the icon that appear is that "E" from microsoft.

I have removed the favicon out of the public_html folder, as well as the images folder and the template folder ..... now; I can see the IE icon when going to certain pages, but my homepage still has the Joomla icon. ......... what else can I try?

I have removed the favicon out of the public_html folder, as well as the images folder and the template folder ..... now; I can see the IE icon when going to certain pages, but my homepage still has the Joomla icon. ......... what else can I try?

Did you go under Media Manager and place the favicon.ico there? If you upload the new image into the folder "image" you should see a favicon.ico there just replace it with your's and it should work. You need to do this all with your ftp software and upload the image there. I hope this helps you out?

There is no such folder under Media in my J! 1.5 site. Most weird. Can't find favicon.ico anywhere.

sirknight115 wrote:

Did you go under Media Manager and place the favicon.ico there? If you upload the new image into the folder "image" you should see a favicon.ico there just replace it with your's and it should work. You need to do this all with your ftp software and upload the image there. I hope this helps you out?

I also screwed this up. I was using a 32x32 icon. Also consider this, is an icon an icon or does it have to be a certain size and/or color palette icon. So I went back and created a multi resolution icon that covers all windows platforms (sorry mac). Then cleared the browser cache after coming back here and reading this thread again. Now the new and improved icon is uploaded to the proper directory and works like a charm. I just can't say enough about this forum and the support offered.

Using Joomla 1.5, there is no default favicon.ico in /images, and looking for one, there is one for each of my templates.

Given that I want to eventually use multiples templates for my (sizeable) site, does this mean I need to replace all of those .ico files with my own? or can I merely delete them and Joomla will default to looking in the /images folder?

You need to replace all of those favicon.ico files for each template folder. After you do that you can clear the caché so you can see your site's favicon.

For all of you, i've just find this page http://www.favicon.cc/ to make your own favicons without troubles. I was wasting my time with photoshop, and changing file extensions, etc. But in this page i just made a favicon really fast, and with the whole characteristics you need. The only thing you should do is to fill up every square of the grid with the color you choose, or upload a base image.

I noticed that after changing the favicon in current template, the browser still showed the old one from cache. Refreshing didn't help so I wrote the direct address to the favicon to the address bar of my browser, for example

Code:

http://yourjoomlalocation/templates/current_template/favicon.ico

With this address, the browser of course showed the correct favicon image. After this trick, the old favicon did not appear anymore.

I noticed that after changing the favicon in current template, the browser still showed the old one from cache. Refreshing didn't help so I wrote the direct address to the favicon to the address bar of my browser, for example

Code:

http://yourjoomlalocation/templates/current_template/favicon.ico

With this address, the browser of course showed the correct favicon image. After this trick, the old favicon did not appear anymore.

Thank you.

Nothing else posted in this thread worked for me until your suggestion.

Hi guys!I'm new in hereI just register to become a member in order to post comment in this forum.All i want to say is Thanks!!!I've been trying to change my favicon file for 2 days now and i begin to feel frustrated.Then i got an idea to log to joomla forum to see anyone got problem same as i did.I can hardly solve this problem if i haven't enter this forum. Thanks guy! Thanks!!!!!! much release

Or you can delete all the favicons in your template folders and put your favicon in your main root folder of joomla (the same goes for the administrator area: delete the favicon from your administrator/templates/khepri and put it in your administraotr folder.)

I upgraded 1.5.9 to 1.5.14 and it changed both logo and favicon. I could change logo with no problem, however, i get strange behaviors when trying to change favicon:

I delete original (joomla) favicon.ico, then upload a new favicon.png. I check to see if its the right icon. I then rename to favicon.ico and then somehow it reverts back to the orginal joomla favicon that i just deleted!!!! When I check in my filemanager and view the icon, it is the original joomla icon instead of the icon i just uploaded seconds before and which looked fine as .png????

What am I missing?

UPDATE:

For reasons unknown, the new favicon is now showing correctly, even though it is not showing in my filemanager! So I suppose that my issue is now solved.

Hurray !!.. If you want to see the preview of your favicon & if you r using Mozilla thn just clear n cache n hav a look. it takes just a second.

How to clear cache:Go to Tools Menu--> Clear Private Data--> Now here there are many options like Browsing history , saved form cache etc..See to it than all are unchecked, only cache has to be checked and than click on clear private data...Finish .Any queries ask me.. buh byeThis is my site link.. http://www.munjokutch.com//templates/th ... avicon.ico

Hey guys, I thought I'd post here rather than open a new thread as its just a variation of your problem. I have favicon change in both the root folder and template folder and my favicon shows in the tab and in the address bar no problem however when I try to bookmark a page in either the bookmark menu or the toolbar it shows up as the joomla favicon. has anybody got any idea's on why this is?

I've definitely changed the favicon in the root and the templates folder so the joomla one isn't in either and I've cleared the cache several times as well as restarting the browser [mozilla] but to no avail. What's baffling me is that my favicon shows up in the tab & address bar no problem. Is there maybe somewhere else where the joomla favicon is stored?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Edit: My problem seems to have corrected itself so the cache must not have been cleared! [even though I definitely did!!!]

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